The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-02
CHANCE HITS OF AUTHoRA
Accidents That Have Given Fame and
Fortune to wrfter-.

shelf OF one OF the largest HecOnd-hand book
.storesin Now York, and suggested the question
whether II had not had larger sale than any
American work OF fiction excepting Uncle
Toms Cabins
The nron,i,,or who k,ova "a ,,,oh aho,,
books a. JOSEPH II. Choste does o, law. replied
una tina, WINE helens Bao,os mad Deens0ne OF
te niost oNuhoroinRry succosses IN the DOCK
trade II did not stand second to Uncle Toms
Cabin.n Then he rummnoed around ON a
dusty shelf, and took down thick volume.
whose covers nave faded from original black
book had. next to Uncle OLE, Toms Cal. Cabin" had
American author. made out tho faded letters
u The So ' book is NOV now almost unInown to tn.
vonnoor gonerat,on oi Ireadars Int tb,riv
younger eeher,oh o9auer ,s, out 'n,r!
It would give Mr.. Howos the horrors to road
it. and yetlmoro copies Of Il, three or four times
books put together. Over two hundred edi-
there is even now moro demand for 1t, mainly
from persons who read it years ago, and. re-
The Lamplighter" was written by a Boston
woman and is Boston tale. . But, though Its
success was 30 phenomenal the author was
for S aps aS,
Of literary habits i T. wsss mon'iSned hoS
brought some money to her purse. It never
made for her the tame that It's success what.
eyer EVEN i bsr tor"r' merits w'ro 0usn' 10 nave
Nothing Is known OF this author s except TINT
edd m moments Tor several years upon The story
Ihen IL remained ID hor aesk some Time i9ngeIi
na authors In 'f Being Promptly reeSea
by sese sn n a Mark Tvo,ns that no nav
author On aen made any great SUCCESS
d9ss nN this liza me
t. b coin IT Int bsh * rs snd mh ny nHa
But i Il Is fact that many Of the Greatest
Of Aneisa freton Writers e have
eSoec ted acknowledgements. The veteran book
seller picked up . copy q Howo's STORY Of 2
eSS Hn converted this WORK ' into great sue:
Of q little newspaper IL XtchisoP, Kan. NJ.
body suspected tnat ne nad any ii.erary a P6il.
the impulse e write seized lin h ana he yielded
snd be bad e ns hs sapper he shut Sef
Sometimes the pen howsd smootnIy nnth , l91nf
to initiate none q the maslers OF heti9n: He
wss on sh ne pent 81 his
into s ths IRE. and very often q IL eLsSed ths
END OF MS penhoider, Ms auuacaty ,triGniehSIa
nun n o RHs ne nmbIished Il 6Imseif and rank
nat failure II was some Of those T " FGad th IL
I,a a! at it, ana some oamheo I" WIN the
And the book Sas foTsctt s.s,, ,,,.,. rs,
was ss% pof Ms' alsuna the Sosks ss Second:
STORY Of Country Town" He ran his his eyes
next number q the I2satiss nj; ASwsIss Ar e.:
Of t6s Tas ssssn h. w,.n
howe couId scarceiy pe t,c ns tb Sses ~pS
but he speedy had evdence sha. he had made
70 put tn work the MARKET
we'll IL Europe: 80 ,.o..,,r
WITH b sas sye .sa at nishs MARKING out lis OWN
pHth and hs
ppnnnrtnnity' the habit OF careful polis6inc and
q y are Tre th a yea ads h 70
Miss Acott greet AZ sbs we Ssd bsan enc
1nonS vea - f"r The Weeklv story naners. She
got money ef Tor her work. But no more fame il
goo esFary e efSls And Wbsn Robers Brothers
~ pnstan snsE%astad that she Siye them. and
oL bostOn suRGestteu sna ~ ro, nv nannIa she
s ghha a w ss;ometSns HI or miss at tie speed
oS q rsnorter Who Writes while the forms are
W u WtS dietionary ON her knee Tor
dssk she aWay rom feafv ths ber
insers weFe 90 an she gould not bend them,
ana scarcely LOOKING az !fS paGeS sUr ~
juvenile stories Ms ever Written was prepared
i Iiea ptpda saamt a Whan she wrote Little
W NVoU.e Rmt a. was 1t That mads her fame
women. Dn. IL "aS hi' 'n"s ii'n'Ao no1 A""i'
a1 Mr ae stoWe has often told the intimates who
ams that sSa hg Never had the remotest idea
Ia .rHi en IInoIs Tnmn that ia sale would
enni Ers wben Il vas rst published as So
rial good many stoIi 20 nav hNet Dg Rmt shc
SpS ,aS sad That Tie rst CHAPTER she wrote
MS To That xas wrtten IN BrunsWicE,
ne'S 1 tba narsnna9e and When abe finished
Me.i IN InS ths t;. % AND grsativ vera
tbe s1e eti rea BY t. She rst intended il as
ssingte snsi e. a Du MINI, hm9 p'"'i VI VIZ
aeMyeiopeu ~ n1r MA sba o,va IN daily oompo.